I've known the population growth is unsustainable and there will be shortages of resources, but I never considered the population crashing and losing billions of people... That will be an adjustment...
I was entertained, but I wouldn't take anything to heart when it's all so unsubstantiated. The documentary starts out pretty intense but grows increasingly ponderous by the end, and Ruppert's credibility is always at question.
I think it's a good thing to watch and talk about, but I wouldn't go in accepting it as fact.
But I've had a garden for the last 5 years, so that had nothing to do with this movie.
It does seem alarmist and out there, but it kind of has to be. It's obvious the guy has a few screws loose, but again, he has to. No "normal" person is going to dig that deep into this shit. Or draw conclusions from seemingly unconnected events. It's like A Beautiful Mind.
But, peak oil is a thing. We are entirely too dependent on a resource that won't last forever.
Of all the things the government wants to regulate, I am of the mind that oil should be the one thing it does. It's way too important for the cost to be left up to Wall Street traders.
I live in upstate NY in the middle of Apple country. Why is it that when I go to the supermarket, I see apples from Washington or even Argentina? How does that make any fucking sense? Meanwhile, all our growers are bitching and complaining that they're barely getting paid enough for their crop to make it worth even picking off the trees. I don't get how it can be that much cheaper to ship produce from all the way across the country, let alone the bottom of the South America. I like eating strawberries in December, but it's not important enough that we need to be wasting resources shipping them here from Timbuktu.
Above all, this movie changed the way I think about plastic. What peak oil means for plastic is terrifying, especially with our recycling percentages as awful as they are.
I'll come clean: I only recycled when it was convenient. When I moved into a condo complex that didn't have recycling pickup, I chucked everything in the dumpster. I've since been surreptitiously dumping my stuff in a neighboring complex's bins. My goal is to get pickup at this place by 2013.
Areas of the highest population density and waste output not having recycling pickup is sickening.
For now: snap peas, snow peas, cucumber, romaine lettuce, zucchini, beefsteak and grape tomatoes, yellow squash, broccoli, and cauliflower.
In June, the melons (honey dew, cantaloupe, watermelon) get planted.
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